Jinheon Baek (λ°±μ§„ν—Œ) (jinheon.baek [at] kaist [dot] ac [dot] kr), and here is my CV (Curriculum Vitae)


I’m a Ph.D. student in the Graduate school of AI at KAIST (MLAI Lab), where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sung Ju Hwang, and before that I received a M.S. degree of Artifical Intelligence at KAIST in 2022. Prior to studying at KAIST, I received my B.S. (Computer Science and Engineering) degree at Korea University in 2020, where I studied machine learning under the guidance of Prof. Jaewoo Kang.

Currently, I am a research intern at Google Gemini. Previously, I worked as a research intern at IBM Research in 2024, a research intern at Microsoft Research in 2023, and an applied scientist II intern at Alexa AI, Amazon in 2022, collaborating with wonderful mentors.

My primary research interest lies in the area of machine learning for languages, knowledge, and their intersections at scale. Previous work includes modeling interconnected data structures (texts and graphs), and retrieving them to augment language models for practical natural language applications. You can refer to my Research Statement: Augmenting Large Language Models with External Knowledge, if interested in.

πŸ“ Publications

(* denotes the equal contribution)

πŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • Awarded the Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Study, 2024-2026
  • Awarded the Travel Grant from KAIST-Google Partnership Program for WWW 2024
  • Received the Best Poster Presentation Award at Samsung AI Forum 2023
  • Received the Best Paper Award at NLRSE Workshop in ACL 2023
  • Awarded the ICML Travel Grant for ICML 2023
  • Awarded the Google Travel Grant for NeurIPS 2022
  • Selected as One of the Top Reviewers (Top 10%) of NeurIPS 2022
  • Selected as One of the Highlighted Reviewers (Top 10%) of ICLR 2022
  • Selected as One of the Best Reviewers (Top 10%) of ICML 2021
  • Received the Best Paper Award at CKAIA 2020
  • Awarded the Samsung Dream Scholarship, 2016-2020
  • Received the First Prize in the Graduation Project Competition at Korea University, 2019
  • Received the Academic Excellence Award (highest GPA) at Korea University, 2019
  • Received the Second Prize for Excellence in the Microsoft Student Partners Activities, 2018
  • Nominated as the Representative of Korean for Excellence in Microsoft Student Partners Activities, 2017